Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:39:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:39:02 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:35866 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:38:49 -0500 Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:39:01 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Phil Sorber Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: 2.4.15aa1 Message-ID: <20011124203901.Q1419@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20011124085028.C1419@athlon.random> <1006629351.1470.8.camel@praetorian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <1006629351.1470.8.camel@praetorian>; from aafes@psu.edu on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:15:50PM -0500 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:15:50PM -0500, Phil Sorber wrote: > On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 02:50, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Only in 2.4.15aa1: 00_iput-unmount-corruption-fix-1 > > > > Fix iput umount corruption. > > Is this the problem that Al put out a patch for yesterday? And is his > patch been tested and working? it's an alternate fix (goes back to the pre8 way). > > > Only in 2.4.15aa1: 00_read_super-stale-inode-1 > > > > If read_super fails avoid lefting stale inodes queued into > > the superblock. > > What is this? How dangerous is it? pre8 and all previous kernels could left a stale inode if read_super failed after an iget [see the discussion with Al on l-k]. this patch should fix it in practice for all fs in the kernel. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/